Disgaea 4 appears to suffering from an attack of Sony or Ishihara induced censorship.

The latest PV:

From which eager observers soon noted that the wooden horse has mysteriously turned into a cat demon thing statue:

Somehow it is hard to see anyone being even slightly interested in disciplining their characters by having them stand on top of a statue – under the circumstances they might have done better to just remove the feature, rather than come out with such an unsightly effort at compliance.

Apparently even a genuine article of medieval torture equipment in a torture chamber is now beyond the pale.

“Somehow it is hard to see anyone being even slightly interested in disciplining their characters by having them stand on top of a statue”

Way to underestimate the median perv level around here.

Srly though, it seems such a retarded move – the kind of crowd who’ll shell out for D4 (I’m in!) aren’t gonna be upset by a tame, jokey bondage reference, they’re more likely to complain because their Disgaea’s getting dicked with.

It doesn’t increase the wider buying audience, but pisses off the guaranteed first day sales.

aww what the hell man. And here I thought the anime and game companies were going to have more balls and stand against Ishihara…wait as sec….didn’t Disgaea 4 already come out? If not hen this really sucks, the ero torture system would have been amusing. God dammit Ishihara you took away some good laughs!

Because I’m a human being, I don’t know whether or not he attacked me or my groups personally, but as a human I’m offended that he’s considered a human, I offed him so he won’t continue to make homo sapiens look bad.

Seriously? That asshole antagonizes so many social groups. Homosexuals, otaku, minorities, foreigners, you name it.
Who is to tell who’d want to get rid of that old shithat most? I don’t say that people should kill him, but, should he be forced out of office or disappear any other way, i’d be glad.

Do you think that Nisa will come up with a formal apology? Or do you think they will go the Japanese way and be silent and try to escape through the back-door?

I’m curious. They are the ones who started this mess by trying to be “controversial”. Looks like they are nothing but little kitties after all.

This comes from a guy who owns practically every Nisa game.

It’s not just Ishihara and his nazis who are an affront to the free spirit of mankind. Cowards like them are just as bad. They are the ones who will stab you in the back while smiling at your face.
Disgusting.

from NIS America’s track record… i wouldn’t be suprised if enough of the community demanded the wooden horse that we’ll see it in the English version of the game lol… which the Japanese otaku would then re-import it back to their country XD

Could’ve been worse. At least that feature is still in.
Besides, they probably would have to do something about it anyway once it was ready to be localized, so the likes of Jack Thompson wouldn’t bitch about this game…
Also, I think that this change is kind of amusing.

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They changed “Ecchi na hanashi wo suru” (Have a perverted conversation) to “Mufufu na hanashi wo suru” (Have a [snide laugh] conversation).
I can only pray that this does not affect the eventual release in my barbaric immoral homeland.

… this is a bit worse than the previous article…. I was expecting something…. honestly what the hell are they censoring that for.. its just pieces of wood… I mean nothing is happening so why censor it. and yeah who would get off from pixels theres really nothing to see.

damn right
even though this is a rather minor setback, it gives us a good impression of the scale of the things to come
or the things that will never come for that matter
or the SM fans who wont come either…
either way, fuck this

Would there be less cencorship if they didn’t involve Sony in at all? I mean, if products keeps being attacked, why not mouve out. I would like my games to be shown as fully as possible, even if it means being pirated on PC.